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Metropolitan Community Church, Clinton E. Stockwell(
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) ...The Good Shepherd Parish MCC, chartered in Chicago in 1970, was the first MCC congregation outside...
...more than 300 churches in 19 countries. The Chicago congregation's initial meetings took place in...
...Church of Christ. The first MCC parish in Chicago has in turn nurtured others in the area, and MCC...
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| 1752 |
Nommo, Ronne Hartfield(
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) ...black aesthetic. Nearly every 1960s black Chicago poet also wrote prose, and felt compelled to...
...bringing major figures like Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) to Chicago as advisors. The Reagan years saw...
...collectives throughout the United States, and Chicago was no exception, as Nommo closed its doors in...
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| 1753 |
Alsip, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...from approximately 50 to 60 feet above the old lake bed plain to heights of over 650 feet. West of...
...to visitors to the city of Blue Island or the Chicago neighborhood of Beverly immediately to the...
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| 1754 |
Palos Hills, IL, William T. Corcoran(
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) ...on the eastern side of the Valparaiso Moraine. The old Sauganash Swamp once covered the remainder of...
...the timber supply, sending much of it to Chicago via the canal. The first Roman Catholic community,...
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| 1755 |
Bridgeport, Dominic A. Pacyga(
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) ...Canal commissioners probably named the new town, which included the northern terminus of the canal,...
...owned a farm along the South Branch of the Chicago River . In April 1812 Indians raided Lee's farm...
...Richard M. Daley, became the fifth mayor of Chicago born in Bridgeport. Bridgeport once stood as a...
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| 1756 |
Prairie Avenue, Heidi Pawlowski Carey(
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) ...purchased by a group of architects called the Chicago School of Architecture Foundation. The home is...
...Prairie Avenue was an exclusive address for Chicago's elite in the late nineteenth century. This...
...did not require its residents to cross the Chicago River . The first large home on the upper portion...
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| 1757 |
Soldier Field, Steven A. Riess(
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) ...seat edifice was completed inside (and rising above) the old colonnades at a cost of $632 million....
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| 1758 |
WBBM, Douglas Gomery(
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) ...radio (and later television) station has long been Chicago's link to CBS. WBBM-AM went on the air in...
...WBBM-TV, and ABC took over WLS-TV. WBBM's McClurg Court studios have long been a Chicago fixture....
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| 1759 |
WCFL, Nathan Godfried(
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) ...surviving labor radio station. Created by the Chicago Federation of Labor in 1926, WCFL initially...
...60s and, from 1966 to 1976, challenged WLS for Chicago's rock music title. The labor federation sold...
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| 1760 |
Bungalow Belt, Ann Durkin Keating(
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) ...politics , “bungalow belt” is a quintessential Chicago term, referring generally to the bungalow-...
...a collar just inside the limits of the city of Chicago. A variety of racial and ethnic groups have...
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| 1761 |
Sister Carrie, John Mack Faragher(
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) ...in 1900, tells the story of young Carrie Meeber, who comes to Chicago from rural Wisconsin. The...
...book paints a rich portrait of turn-of-the-century Chicago. Carrie finds work in a shoe factory and...
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| 1762 |
Saint Xavier University, Sarah Fenton(
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) ...In 1846, Chicago's first Roman Catholic bishop invited the order of the Sisters of Mercy, who had...
...years before, to open a grade school for girls in Chicago. The result, Saint Xavier, was granted an...
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| 1763 |
Benedictine University, Sarah Fenton(
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) ...Slovak immigrants who had begun settling in Chicago at midcentury. They named their new parish St....
...purchased by the monks 30 miles west of Chicago—in 1901, the school began to extend its reach beyond...
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| 1764 |
Concordia University, Sarah Fenton(
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) ...Americans from around the Midwest assembled in Chicago and formed the Lutheran Church Missouri...
...students to a 40-acre campus in River Forest , a tree-lined suburb 10 miles west of Chicago....
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| 1765 |
Marquette Park, Erik Gellman(
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) ...Residents of Chicago Lawn often refer to their neighborhood as Marquette Park, after the 300-acre...
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| 1766 |
Alpha Suffrage Club, Wanda A. Hendricks(
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) ...of 1913 offered African American women in Chicago the opportunity to merge their social welfare...
...pivotal role in the 1915 election of the first African American alderman in Chicago, Oscar DePriest....
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| 1767 |
Brookfield Zoo (Chicago Zoological Park), Dennis A. Meritt, Jr.(
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) ...District of Cook County and managed by the Chicago Zoological Society. With an animal collection...
...a reality and, in 1921, incorporated the Chicago Zoological Society. The following year, building...
...the walrus became a household name as hundreds of Chicago-area residents came to see her antics. The...
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| 1768 |
Winthrop Harbor, IL, Wallace Best(
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) ...been small compared to its neighboring Lake County towns. The village did experience an increase in...
...Winthrop Harbor in Zion, Waukegan , and North Chicago . In 1989, the Illinois Department of Natural...
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| 1769 |
Wood Dale, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...to Wood Dale to distinguish it from another Illinois town of the same name. Travel into the area was...
...these lands for their own farms. When the Chicago & Pacific Railroad came through the area in 1873,...
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| 1770 |
Fox River Grove, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...first international ski-jumping contest. The town of Fox River Grove incorporated in 1919 and in the...
...Politicians such as Mayor Anton Cermak came from Chicago just to eat at Cernocky's restaurant. In...
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